Daily Dose of Beauty: Colors & Textures of Lake Tahoe

Daily Dose of Beauty: Adding a bit of light to the darkness as we get through the pandemic together. This series features travel photos and stories from my archives, shared with you as we shelter in place. April 30th, 2020 We made it through April – one of the longest, most challenging and most tragic months in our history. Let’s

Daily Dose of Beauty: A Spring Stroll Through Marbella

Daily Dose of Beauty: Adding a bit of light to the darkness as we get through the pandemic together. This series features travel photos and stories from my archives, shared with you as we shelter in place. April 10th, 2020 Today we’re strolling through the streets of Marbella on a spring day with the bougainvillea in full bloom. This city

Daily Dose of Beauty: Flower Discovery

Daily Dose of Beauty: Adding a bit of light to the darkness as we get through the pandemic together. This series features travel photos and stories from my archives, shared with you as we shelter in place. April 8th, 2020 Following yesterday’s Flower Offerings, today we’re flying the magic travel carpet to Spain for a flower discovery. In May of

Daily Dose of Beauty: Flower Offerings

Daily Dose of Beauty: Adding a bit of light to the darkness as we get through the pandemic together. This series features travel photos and stories from my archives, shared with you as we shelter in place. April 7th, 2020 I’m running late with my post today but it’s never too late to say thank you, right? Today’s flower offerings

Divine Gifts

Last spring, we spent three weeks exploring Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Throughout those three weeks we kept seeing hints of glorious wildflowers as we traveled through the countries in cars, taxis, trains and buses. We would point to the flowers from the windows as the blooms whizzed past us in a blur of color. Driving north from Marbella to Seville

Pure Color at Butchart Gardens

An October afternoon at Butchart Gardens, in photos. Heavenly! Are words even necessary? Not really, other than mentioning that Butchart Gardens is just outside Victoria on Vancouver Island. Trails lead through 55 acres of trees, plants and flowers, still cared for by the Butchart family more than 100 years after Jennie Butchart transformed the former limestone quarry into a complex

“Earth laughs in flowers.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Earth laughs in flowers.” Here’s a gallery of laughter in honor of Earth Day, photographed at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Enjoy! Click on any photo to view larger as a slide show.

Stopping to Smell the Flowers

October is my birthday month. What I love most about October is that color overtakes landscape — not so much in Singapore since there aren’t really seasons here, but in all the other places I’ve lived. As a person who is obsessed with color, I can’t think of a better time of year to celebrate my life. I don’t care